Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Gillett

Nixon, D. J.

On the fourteenth of November, 1881, a decree was entered in tho above case, sustaining the validity of complainant’s letters patent, and ordering an account and an injunction against the defendants, restraining them from further infringement.

The defendants now file a petition setting forth that the letters patent, for the infringement of which the suit was brought, were the letters patent of tho United States, numbered 197,314, granted to John J. Bate, of the city of Brooklyn, New York, on the twentieth of November, 1877, for the term of 17 years from that date, for “improvements…